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| Huge case moth 'case' made from felt |
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| Monarch with ukulele |
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| Atawhai's butterflies |
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| Brian Patrick - butterfly expert and magnet |
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| Monarch on bergamot |
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Images from the Bugfest
I'll let the pictures do the talking.
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4 comments:
Did they have any nettles?!
None! At first I was dissapointed but on talking with the owners of the property where hundreds of species of insect-friendly plants have been planted to create habitat for everythng that has six legs, I learned that they are soon to create an onga onga garden for the red and yellow admirals!
I've never heard of anyone going to those lengths before!
I refered them to your site and post on nettles and they were very interested. Brian Patrick (pictured) kows all that is to be known about moths and butterflies and is a very friendly guy. I'm about to write up the visit so will post some detail later. The release of the monarchs was pretty special. All of the children were given buddleia flowers to hold and as the butterflies emerged from the box they flew straight to these, to the delight of all!
The wee girl Atawhai is Metiria Turei's neice. Meteria's sister was there with her children and is a very nice woman.
If it's felt you're interested in you might like to visit softearth's world: http://www.softearthart.blogspot.com/
Thanks Ele - she's talented!
Did you see her garden?
http://softearthart.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-summer-garden.html
That's impressive!
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